Info comes via AP, here is the link to keep up with ongoing developments.

In brief:

  • rebel advance reached the capital, ending the Assad family’s 50 years of iron rule
  • Russian state news agencies were reporting that President Bashar Assad and his family had arrived in Moscow and were given asylum
  • Abu Mohammed al-Golani, a former al-Qaida commander who cut ties with the group years ago leads the biggest rebel faction in Syria ... said Assad’s fall was “a victory to the Islamic nation.”
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I wonder if the new mob will be an improvement on the old mob?